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• December 22, 2005General

  MapMemo: Contextualize your files

  MapMemo is a neat little desktop program that let’s you drag and drop any file on a map to create a location-based pointer to the original file. The problems with […]

• December 21, 2005General

  VerySpatial Contest #3 – Name the VerySpatial Bear!

  That’s right! Our sooo cute new mascot needs a name! Just send us an email with your suggestion for what to name our bear, and Jesse, Frank, and I will […]

• December 20, 2005General

  Web Mapping hits the Big Time!

  Check out this hilarious video from Saturday Night Live (SNL), where Yahoo Maps, Mapquest, and Google Maps get a nod. The site’s been getting hit pretty heavily, so it might […]

• December 20, 2005General, GeographyBlogs

  Planet Geospatial Widget

  As you know, I am all about the widgets. The newest widget on my desktop is the Planet Geospatial RSS widget which pulls from…you guessed…Planet Geospatial. James Fee was nice […]

• December 19, 2005General, GIS_Software

  Mapping a city’s tree canopy

  This article from the Charlotte Observer discusses Hickory, North Carolina’s plan to map its tree canopy using aerial photography and and unnamed mapping software product, as development has begun to […]

• December 18, 2005General, GeographyAwareness

  San Francisco Chronicle’s Geography Quiz

  So, if you think you know some geography, try this quiz from the San Francisco Chronicle

• December 16, 2005General, GeographyBlogs

  Where It’s At Podcast 2 available

  I am not sure why I sat on this information for a few days without posting it, but Paul and Renee have released their second great podcast for the land […]

• December 15, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  The Gigapxl Project

  The Gigapxl Project is based on an amazing super-high resolution camera built by Graham Flint, which he has used to take amazing landscape pictures, including a panorama of Pittsburgh, which […]

• December 14, 2005General

  Send us your “Best of 2005” pick

  Episode 23 will be a year end round up of 2005 and a pick into 2006. We would like to include your perspectives on any local or regional Geography or […]

• December 12, 2005General, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

  BBC NEWS | Virtual tour of Africa’s heritage

  The BBC has an interesting article on the scanning and modeling of heritage sites in Africa. This is along the same lines as some of the work that Sue and […]